Recently, the saffron flower began to enjoy just crazy popularity. Surely, your spring women's holidays have not been without him. Do not you remember? Yes, throw, it seems, pots with colorful onion crocuses were given to each of the fair sex. Yes, crocus is saffron, which has a lot of useful properties. It is the most beautiful and most delicate flower, the famous spicy culinary seasoning and a medicinal plant, which in folk medicine is used to treat almost all diseases.
The healing properties of saffron
First of all, saffron, of course, wins its beauty. Bright flowers, similar to tulips, will be an ornament of any house. But as it turns out, beauty is by no means the greatest advantage of crocus-saffron. This flower contains just a huge amount of vitamins, essential oils and beneficial microelements. It is thanks to the vitamin composition and the mass of useful properties that saffron has long been a popular ingredient in the recipes of traditional medicine.
Healing properties of saffron can be used by girls suffering from disorders of the menstrual cycle. Tinctures and medicines based on stigmas of crocus can even reduce painful sensations during menstruation. With saffron much easier to survive menopause.
In ancient times, women used crocuses in the fight against infertility and to maintain pregnancy with the threat of miscarriage. Of course, today it is not necessary to rely solely on the healing properties of saffron in the fight against infertility, but it is recommended to use it as a preventive and additional remedy during treatment.
Indications for using saffron
The whole flower is not useful: its petals do not represent value after the withering away. Stamens and pollen - the most expensive and useful that is in crocus. While pollen is used mainly in cooking, dried stigmas are used in folk medicine.
The main advantages of drugs based on saffron look as follows:
- Very often saffron is prescribed for oncological diseases. The plant allows to slow down the development of cancer cells and reduce the size of tumors.
- Often, the useful properties of saffron are used in the treatment of headaches and insomnia. Crocus-based medicines also help improve brain activity.
- Saffron is able to purify the blood and normalize the work of the cardiovascular system.
- The plant has a favorable effect on the body as a whole, has a powerful toning effect.
- Saffron can be used in the treatment of wounds and burns .
In addition, the plant is used to clean the kidneys and bladder, helps to get rid of allergies and alcohol dependence, treats eye diseases. The list of the advantages of saffron can be continued for a very long time - this flower can rightly be considered a panacea.
Therapeutic properties and contra-indications of saffron
Prescriptions of medicines based on the useful properties of saffron are quite simple. So, for example, one hundred grams of melted honey can be mixed with several dozen stigmas of saffron. The resulting mixture is eaten
As with any medicine, saffron, in addition to useful properties, there are a number of contraindications:
- It is not recommended to be treated with saffron for pregnant women and children under two years of age;
- be careful with the use of the plant should hypertensive patients;
- it is contraindicated in the treatment of saffron in diabetes mellitus.